Awards and Honors

Year after year, Fenwick & West is honored for excellence in the legal profession. Many of Fenwick’s attorneys are recognized as industry leaders, and the firm’s practice groups consistently receive top honors, including:

Firmwide

Named Technology Group of the Year by Law360 for the fifth consecutive year (2017)

Ranked #1 in the Americas and #3 Worldwide for the number of Technology, Media and Telecommunications deals by Mergermarket (2015)

Named to The National Law Journal’s IP Hot List, recognizing the most influential IP practices in the country (2015)

More than 20 percent of Fenwick partners are ranked by Chambers USA and Chambers Global (2017)

Recognized by American Lawyer as one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States by revenue (2017)

Recognized as the second largest law firm in the Bay Area by the Silicon Valley Business Times (2018)

Recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times for eleven consecutive years; Fenwick is one of the top 10 large Bay Area companies and the top law firm in this category (2017)

Ranked among the top five law firms in the U.S. for diversity by Law360 (2017)

Honored with the National Legal Aid & Defender Association’s Beacon of Justice award for helping increase access to justice for low-income individuals (2014)

International

Recognized by Chambers Global for excellence in tax work and corporate/M&A work in Israel (2018)

Five Fenwick partners recognized by Chambers Global in the top tiers for global excellence in intellectual property, corporate and tax work (2018)

Received Global Deal of the Year award from Global M&A Network for representing Ireland-based King Digital Entertainment in its $5.9 billion acquisition by Activision Blizzard (2016)

Received Asia Pacific Private Equity Deal of the Year award from Global M&A Network for the firm’s role in Giant Interactive’s $3 billion going private transaction (2015)

Received China Deal of the Year by the China Business Law Journal for the firm’s role in Giant Interactive’s $3 billion going private transaction (2014)

Corporate

Ranked #1 in the Americas and #3 Worldwide for the number of Technology, Media and Telecommunications deals by Mergermarket (2015)

Recognized as the top law firm for private tech company M&A deals in 2015​ by PrivCo (2016)

Handled five of the year’s top 10 venture capital-backed tech exits, including both the largest venture-backed IPO and venture-backed acquisition on behalf of the target (2014)

Named M&A Mid-Market Team of the Year by The Legal 500 (2015)

Ranked in the first tier in California for venture capital as well as startups and emerging companies work by Chambers USA; also ranked nationally for M&A and corporate work, in California for capital markets and employee benefits and executive compensation, and in Washington for corporate and commercial representation (2017)

Honored by Global M&A Network with two Deal of the Year awards for representing King Digital Entertainment in its $5.9 billion acquisition by Activision Blizzard and representing Symantec in its $7.4 billion sale of Veritas Technologies Corporation to an investor group led by The Carlyle Group (2016)

Honored by Global M&A Network with the Technology Deal of the Year for the firm’s role in WhatsApp’s $19 billion acquisition by Facebook, and the Asia Pacific Private Equity Deal of the Year award for the firm’s role in Giant Interactive’s $3 billion going private transaction from Global M&A Network (2015)

Ranked one of the top law firms nationally for venture capital law by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® (2017)

Named Emerging Companies Group of the Year by The Recorder (2014)

Litigation

Selected as one of the top firms in California for securities litigation by Chambers USA (2017)

Recognized on The National Law Journal’s IP Hot List for outstanding patent, copyright, trademark and IP litigation services (2015)

Honored nationally and in California by World Trademark Review 1000 for outstanding work in trademark enforcement and litigation (2018)

Selected as one of the top firms nationally and in California for trademark, copyright and patent litigation by Managing Intellectual Property (2017)

Secured first-tier national rankings for IP litigation and patent litigation and a first-tier San Francisco ranking for commercial litigation in U.S. News – Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms (2017)

Recognized as a Go-To law firm for IP litigation by in-house counsel at Fortune 500 companies in Corporate Counsel magazine (2015)

Recommended among the top patent litigation shops in California and Washington in IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners​ ​(2017)

Named California’s Securities Litigation Department of the Year by The Recorder (2013)

Intellectual Property

Recognized by Chambers USA as a leading law firm for intellectual property and IT and outsourcing in California (2017)

Recognized on The National Law Journal’s IP Hot List for outstanding patent, copyright, trademark and IP litigation services (2015)

Recognized as the largest IP law firm in Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley Business Journal (2016)

Recognized nationally and in California – with the highest possible ranking in California – for both trademark prosecution and trademark litigation in World Trademark Review 1000 (2018)

Named one of the top U.S. and California firms for copyright, trademark and patent prosecution in Managing Intellectual Property (2017)

Recognized as the best patent prosecution group in Western North America by Managing Intellectual Property (2015)​

U.S. News – Best Lawyers® ranked Fenwick in the top tiers nationally and in San Francisco and San Jose for patent law. The firm also ranked among the leading firms for copyright law nationally and in San Franciso and San Jose (2017)

Recognized by The Legal 500 as a leader in patent prosecution and licensing, as well as copyright (2017)

Noted by Law360 as having one of the largest IP practices in the U.S. (2014)

Tax

Recognized for excellence in tax work in Chambers Global and Chambers USA (2018)

Named San Francisco & Silicon Valley Firm of the Year by International Tax Review nine times (2017)

Names the U.S. Tax Court Firm of the Year by International Tax Review (2017)​

Named the U.S. West Coast Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year by International Tax Review (2016)

Honored with two Tax Deal of the Year awards by International Tax Review at the Americas Awards Dinner in the financial services and media & entertainment categories (2017)

Recognized by The Legal 500 as a leader in domestic and international tax and tax controversy (2017)​

Awarded First Tier status as one of the World’s Leading Tax Planning Firms and as one of the World’s Leading Transactional Firms by International Tax Review(2017)​

Ranked in the first tier for tax law and tax litigation in San Jose in the Best Law Firms guide released by U.S. News – Best Lawyers®. Also ranked among the leading tax firms nationwide and in San Francisco. (2017)

Awarded first tier status every year by World Tax Review, most recently in World Tax Review 2017 (2017)

Diversity, Sustainability & Culture

Recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times for eleven years; Fenwick is one of the top 10 large Bay Area companies and the top law firm in this category (2017)

Ranked the fourth best law firm in the U.S. for diversity by The American Lawyer (2017) and seventh by Law360 (2016)

Recognized as having both the best mentoring and the best pro bono program in North America by Euromoney at its Americas Women in Business Law Awards for four straight years. Also recognized as the best North American firm for women in business law for two consecutive years (2017)

Recognized by The National Law Journal on its Pro Bono Hot List, which recognizes the top 10 law firms in the U.S. for pro bono work (2014)

Honored with the Beacon of Justice award by the National Legal Aid & Defender Association for helping increase access to justice for low-income individuals (2014)

Received the San Francisco Business Times’ 2014 Community Impact Award for the firm’s Virtual Pro Bono Project, which uses technology to bring legal services to low-income people in rural areas (2014)

The first U.S. law firm to have a LEED-CI Platinum-certified office (our Seattle office) – we additionally have a LEED-EB Gold-certified office in Mountain View, CA. – and the first law firm certified by Santa Clara County (the county covering most of Silicon Valley) as an environmentally sustainable Green Business

Received the Business Environmental Award for Sustainable Built Environment in recognition of the firm’s state-of-the-art Green Data Center by Acterra, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s oldest and most prestigious environmental recognition programs (2012)